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unsplash-logoToa Heftiba The bruises now are healed The scars covered by tattoos I don’t jump when I hear the door Nor am I a captive audience in the pews You took away my innocence The little boy who loves God and Santa You beat me where no one could see me When your […]

The creeping sad and delightful darkness sweeps through the gate of my mind twisting swirling bits of memory and pushes back the iron gates with a bang through many dangerous toils and snares I delighted in the part of me that made me human as I lay a pagan sacrifice to baal with the […]

There is an anger inside of me an anger cultivated from seeing the world through your eyes the seeds of this understanding in fields once plowed by the merciless and unyielding force of religion’s myopic blade having once been allowed to fallow as the fruit had grown bitter on the vine this ground […]

It’s been a few days since I’ve written my last entry into this thing that i started doing for reasons of self-preservation. Mostly, because for the past several days I’ve felt pretty light. Relieved in a way. The stars all seemed to align for me and I allowed myself to see the truth – […]

I have a dog. He’s a beautiful five-year-old German Shepherd named Kaiser. He’s such a stud. Everyone stops when he walks by and looks at him when I take him out on his walks. He’s not the usual black and brown Rin Tin Tin – he’s a little more black. But he has these deep […]

You can’t control and make people afraid with a loving God. A loving God takes away the entire platform of Independent Fundamental Baptist movement and a lot of other denominations of Christianity. Think about it this way, when we see art like a painting or hear a symphony or watch an incredible movie – […]

The world seems filled with scandal today. Anthony Weiner is back in the news for tweetin’ his pecker. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are on the outs and getting a divorce. Hillary has her emails and everything that comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth is a damn lie. Everything today seems salacious. But I […]

Last night I got word that a really cool guy that I knew passed away. His name was David. He was an ex-Marine (take that back, from what I understand once a Marine always a Marine) a father, a husband, and all around really nice guy. It really sucked last night to hear he had […]

I woke up thinking about Power this morning and was going to blog about that. But after reading the rawness of yesterday’s post, I have instead opted to talk about thankfulness. I find myself in a unique position. On one hand, I despise having to have gone through all that I did. I hate it. […]

“Do you know if you were to die today, that you would go to heaven?” Yikes. That’s the million dollar question that could have many different answers. But it was a question posed to me by my father in our home in Detroit when I was seven years old. I remember it clearly. I was sitting […]